Full Idea
The power of agent and patient taken together, which may be called the complete power, is the same as the complete cause, for each consists in the aggregation together of all the accidents that are required to produce an effect in both agent and patient.
Gist of Idea
The complete power of an event is just the aggregate of the qualities that produced it
Source
Thomas Hobbes (De Corpore (Elements, First Section) [1655], 2.10.01)
Book Reference
Hobbes,Thomas: 'Metaphysical Writings', ed/tr. Calkins,Mary Whiton [Open Court 1905], p.77
A Reaction
They treat powers as macro phenomena, and don't seem to have a sense of the basic powers that build up the big picture.